I hadn't heard about the missed orbit thing, but this has some details: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/08/st...ew-mirror/
That's a little unfortunate, but not enough to consider the mission unsuccessful. It's a test flight of a new rocket. Not doing a RUD is already a victory. It's not even that far off course. Just think of it as if Lindbergh's flight to Paris ended up in the Azores. That's close, right?
Yeah, people would be harder on the government, but after spending this much time and money on the boringly-named Space Launch System and the Constellation program, I think they deserve it. The Space Shuttle too, which for all of its successes really held back the space program in the 1970s and 2000s. Seriously, we've never landed on the moon my entire life. Fail fast, iterate, and only after a few cycles put humans on the thing.
But if you just keep designing and never actually use the thing, what do you expect your public support to do? I mean, yeah, I'm one of the people who helped write a Perl 6 compiler, a language that famously took 15 years to finally appear. But we could use it for stuff by 2010. The great cathedrals took decades to build, but chapels within were used for worship far before the things were actually finished. I have family who works for ULA, but I'm still on SpaceX's side because they provide results while promoting the idea of space exploration to everyone.
That's a little unfortunate, but not enough to consider the mission unsuccessful. It's a test flight of a new rocket. Not doing a RUD is already a victory. It's not even that far off course. Just think of it as if Lindbergh's flight to Paris ended up in the Azores. That's close, right?
Yeah, people would be harder on the government, but after spending this much time and money on the boringly-named Space Launch System and the Constellation program, I think they deserve it. The Space Shuttle too, which for all of its successes really held back the space program in the 1970s and 2000s. Seriously, we've never landed on the moon my entire life. Fail fast, iterate, and only after a few cycles put humans on the thing.
But if you just keep designing and never actually use the thing, what do you expect your public support to do? I mean, yeah, I'm one of the people who helped write a Perl 6 compiler, a language that famously took 15 years to finally appear. But we could use it for stuff by 2010. The great cathedrals took decades to build, but chapels within were used for worship far before the things were actually finished. I have family who works for ULA, but I'm still on SpaceX's side because they provide results while promoting the idea of space exploration to everyone.
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